Corey v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
197 federal appellate · 9 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 294 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. DiFrancesco (1980), United States v. Hahn (2004)
197 federal appellate · 9 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedCorey v. United States (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cobbledick v. United States · Berman v. United States · United States v. Smith · Korematsu v. United States · Miller v. Aderhold
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 294 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the court desires more detailed information as a basis for determining the sentence to be imposed, the court may commit the defendant to the custody of the Attorney General, which commitment shall be deemed to be for the maximum sentence of imprisonment prescribed by law, for a study as described in subsection (c) hereof.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Final judgment in a criminal case ... means sentence. The sentence is the judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A sentence ... imposed only after the whole process of the criminal trial and determination of guilt has been completed, sufficiently satisfies conventional requirements of finality for purposes of appeal. The litigation is complete as to the fundamental matter at issue-the right to convict the accused of the crime charged in the indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.